"Fire!"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

With the rumbling sound of cannons, iron pellets flew out of the barrels and shot at the Mongolian soldiers who were rushing towards them, and the gunners were constantly adjusting the wooden sleepers of different thicknesses to adjust the elevation angle of the artillery.

"Fire!"

With the order of the artillery commander, the small red flag waved, the gun mount of each artillery involuntarily jumped backwards, a large stream of fire and smoke rose, eight cannonballs larger than a fist were whistling towards the Qing cavalry group, eight fiery iron balls roared away from the formation of the Xuan army, and smashed into the Qing cavalry group, a piece of flesh and blood flew, and people or horses continued to fall to the ground, people called horses neighing, causing a lot of chaos.

Seeing this situation in the eyes of Dong Guo on the side, he couldn't help nodding secretly, although the artillery equipped by the Xuanda army was still relatively simple compared to the Napoleonic artillery they were equipped with, their training was still good, at least to the extent that they could constantly adjust the angle and orientation of the artillery at any time according to the distance of the enemy.

Sure enough, Dong Guo soon heard the shouting of the commander of the Xuan artillery battalion in front: "Get on the shotgun, one hundred and seventy steps away, the tiger squat and prepare for the cannon!" ”

At this time, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, although the Franc cannon just now gave the Tartars a big blow, but after all, it was a solid bullet, and at most it caused dozens of casualties, compared to the number of the two thousand people in the Tartars, it was still too far behind.

With the order of the commander of the artillery battalion, the gunners of the seven tiger squat guns with a relatively close range made the final correction of the position of the artillery fire that had already been loaded, and the medium-sized Franc machine gun, which was still firing with solid shells just now, also began to load with loose shells, and bags of iron pellets were poured into the barrels.

In all fairness, the riding skills of the Mongolian soldiers are indeed not bad, even compared to the soldiers and horses of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and even better, but since the Yuan Dynasty established by the Mongols was destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Mongolian iron cavalry, which once shocked the world and pointed directly at the Eurasian continent, once again degenerated into a group of free and loose herdsmen.

In recent years, the Mongols who have submitted to the Manchus have been trained and guided by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they have indeed grown a lot compared to before, and the loose surname Bing has also changed a lot, because of this, they are often used as cannon fodder for charging into battle, and now looking at the appearance of their bows and arrows, it is estimated that they can start archery as long as they rush a few dozen steps.

Looking at the approaching Mongolian soldiers, the expression on Yang Guozhu's face was almost distorted, and he used all his strength to shout: "All fire!" ”

"Fire!"

With the deafening sound of the cannons, the fifteen Buddha wolf cannons and tiger squat cannons in the artillery camp all spewed out a large puff of fierce gunpowder smoke and fire.

These cannons were filled with iron pellets or lead bullets the size of little fingers, and some of them were even made of local materials, and some stones were randomly taken from the ground and loaded into them, and with a loud bang, the iron pellets flying all over the sky instantly covered the front of the entire position.

Thousands of iron pellets and lead bullets whizzed towards the Mongols in front, they were different in size and flew in different trajectories, but one thing was the same, and that was their lethality at close range.

In the midst of the terrible neighing of horses, the charging Mongolian soldiers seemed to be swept across the air by an invisible giant hand, and the hundreds of Mongolian cavalry who rushed to the front collectively performed a volley, and were swept off their horses in unison.

As long as they are hit head-on by these dense iron pellets as thick as a thumb or as thick as a little thumb, whether it is a person or a horse, their bodies will suddenly be covered with dense blood holes, and it will be absolutely difficult to survive.

At this moment, the Tartars either screamed and fell off their horses, or rolled off their horses without saying a word, and the horses that had been shot were either rolling on the ground in a blur of flesh and blood, or screaming fiercely, and jumping wildly with huge wounds.

Looking at these Mongolian cavalry who had been fatally hit, Yang Guozhu did not have any pity in his eyes, and then he gave another order: "Hurry up and abandon the artillery battalion, crossbowmen!" ”

"Bang la la la!"

The 1,000 archers, who had been on standby for a long time, immediately shot their bows and arrows while the panicked Mongol soldiers did not react.

"Whoosh ......"

A thousand arrows rained down on the Mongol soldiers who were in a mess outside, and shot the Mongols who had not yet reacted into hedgehogs. On the other hand, those Mongolian cavalry, either in a mess or blocked by their companions, originally in the attack of two thousand cavalry of the two Mongolian Eight Banners now less than a thousand, such huge casualties and blows have already exhausted their morale, at this time they can no longer raise the courage to continue to attack, the remnants of the Mongolian soldiers behind have dozens of people began to beat horses to bypass the side, ready to escape, the rest of the cavalry no longer pose any threat to this position, Even if hundreds of cavalry barely rushed up, they could only be sent to death.

Seeing that the Mongol soldiers had lost more than 1,000 as soon as they charged, Du Du, who was watching the battle from behind, turned pale for a while, and muttered in his mouth: "Xuan Dabing, I underestimate them." The order is that the attack must not stop, the people behind continue to rush forward, and the auxiliaries follow, and that line of defense must be broken today! ”

At this time, Du Du was in a hurry, General Yue Tuo had just ordered himself to attack the Ming army's defense line, and the attack was not a strong army like the Qingzhou Army, and he lost more than 1,000 people at once, this loss is not small, if he can't capture that defense area, what face do he have to see General Yang Wu.

"Attack, keep attacking!"

Under Du Du's order, the thousands of auxiliaries who followed the Mongol soldiers also gritted their teeth and rushed forward, either on horseback or on foot, divided into two teams and rushed forward continuously.

Looking at the continuous offensive of the Qing soldiers, Yang Guozhu's face also began to become solemn, and he knew that the real test was coming.

"What about the artillery, hurry up and order the artillery to fire!" Seeing the dense Qing soldiers, Yang Guozhu was a little anxious.

"My lord, our artillery has already fired more than a dozen shells, and now it is cooling down, and we can't fight any more, and if we hit it again, there is a risk of exploding." A staff member on the side hurriedly explained to him.

"Huh!" Yang Guozhu's right hand smacked his left hand in annoyance, and ordered loudly: "Order the crossbowmen to stand by, and the spearmen and sword and shield hands to step forward and prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

"Yes!"

The general was about to give the order, when he heard another rumbling cannon sound from the position of the artillery battalion!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The sudden sound of cannon fire made Yang Guozhu jump.

"What the hell is going on, doesn't it mean that our artillery is still cooling down?"

"This ...... The last general doesn't know! ”

The general was also a little confused, stood on tiptoe and looked forward, and then said with a long sigh of relief: "My lord, this is the artillery battalion of the Qingzhou Army firing artillery, you forgot, didn't General Pang send more than ten artillery pieces to help us, isn't it their turn to fire artillery now." ”

"Fire!"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

With the sound of cannons, shells erupted from the camp behind the Ming army. These projectiles flew in the air with a trace of red dots that seemed to be invisible to the naked eye, and flew towards the Qing army that was rushing towards the Xuanda camp in front.

Soon, these projectiles fell to the ground, and when they fell to the ground, those Qing soldiers were so frightened that they hurriedly scattered from the side to try to avoid these projectiles, but what they didn't expect was that these projectiles were completely different from the projectiles launched by the Xuanda camp just now, with an earth-shattering explosion sound again, the Qing soldiers around the projectiles were shocked into the sky one by one, and the violent explosion shock wave easily tore apart the fragile bodies of the surrounding Qing soldiers, even if they had the protection of armor, but it was useless.

Huge clumps of flesh and stumps were thrown into the air, and countless blood and water flew in the air, forming patches of blood-colored smoke.

When these explosions sounded, Dolgon, who was watching the battle from a distance, couldn't help but be shocked, and his mind immediately returned to the scene when he attacked Jinan City some time ago, it was a nightmare, countless shells that originally seemed to be solid shells were exploding, and the shrapnel they flew out and the loud noise made his White Flag warriors fall in large swaths, and this nightmare is now here again.

Looking at the Qing soldiers who were constantly falling in the distance, Dolgon took a breath and whispered to Yue Tuo beside him: "General, you better let Du Du stop, if you continue to attack like this, it will only increase casualties." ”

Yue Tuo turned his head to look at Dolgon, and nodded slowly, he is also a veteran general who has been in battle for a long time, and naturally knows that Du Du's soldiers and horses seem to have spare strength, but if he continues to attack like this, even if he can capture the position of the Ming army, his red flag will probably be exhausted, and the Ming army will not be so stupid and wait for them to capture the moving position, but there are at least tens of thousands of Ming troops staring at them next to them.

"Alright, let Du Du withdraw!" Yue Tuo could only reluctantly give this order, after all, the current Qing army was not ready to launch a general attack.

"Woo woo woo ......"

The desolate horn sounded in the camp of the Qing army, and as soon as the Qing army, which was still desperately attacking, heard this sound, they immediately retreated like a low tide, and its speed was not much less than the charge.

Looking at the retreating Qing soldiers, Yue Tuo's mood became heavier and heavier, and his intuition told him that the task of not seeing Lu Xiangsheng and Pang Gang this time was even more arduous than he imagined......

(To be continued)